I’m walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal.
AL JARREAUA couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
More Al Jarreau Quotes
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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I was age six or seven, and singing, “Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him,” and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.
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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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That’s why it’s so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time.
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I watched Elvis Presley become – I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.
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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.
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I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn’t noticed anything up until then.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room.
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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
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The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”
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I think a singer is an athlete. I’ve always tried to stay fit.
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and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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